VECO Taro-Planting Project Eyes Huge Environmental Benefit
Extract Article: Daily Post Vanuatu Vunausi Environment Conservation Organization (VECO), a charitable organization from south Santo, is working with communities there to establish integrated farming approaches, to address improved farming, sustainable land management and food security and reduce pressure on natural resources. Through VECO, observations were carried out to assess the challenges faced with addressing livelihood and environmental issues, and it was firmly agreed that an Integrated Farming System (IFS) utilizing the traditional farming approach will be the best approach. This project approach aims to encourage community members to continue to apply their farming, focusing on traditional irrigation method with access to the water resource channeled to their farms and supply of planting materials of food crops potential to improve yield (such as water taro best selected varieties) and farming of freshwater prawn and other freshwater lives, such as shell fish and freshwate